EDITOR'S NOTE: This "Historically Speaking" column contains the opinions of columnist D. Ray Smith based upon the research and information contained in the book, "Critical Mass: How Nazi Germany ...
On this date in history: In 1692, Bridget Bishop was found guilty of the practice of witchcraft and hanged in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was the first colonist executed during ...
On April 21, 1945, the B-24 Liberator "Black Cat" embarked on its final mission, only to be shot down near Regensburg, Germany. Discover the story behind the last U.S. bomber lost over Germany during ...
February 21, 1944. A huge Allied raid is already raging over Nazi Germany when something impossible shows up in the clouds.
Large parts of Dresden's Old Town were evacuated on Wednesday as experts sought to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge. Some 17,000 people were ...